Baby loss is a global issue with around 30,000,000 miscarriages each year, 2.6 million still births and 5.495 million neo-natal and early years losses.
I have four children, but I've had seven pregnancies. 'I'm sorry, there's no heartbeat', is one of the nicer ways of being told that the pregnancy you had planned for is not progressing and you are leaving the scanning room a completely changed person. 
My most recent miscarriage was last summer. If you look carefully during the Sali Hughes 'In The Bathroom' videos, I am very obviously showing, although I never told anyone outside of my nearest and dearest. I only mention it now because two of my closest friends have experienced miscarriages recently - and they were visibly relieved when I shared my numerous experiences. It shouldn't be taboo. It wasn't a complete shock to me to find myself in that situation again, we've been there before. It's never an easy situation to be in, but for me personally, I found it easier to handle this last time, having already had my other children to focus my energies on. (Although it helped that I wasn't put on a labour ward when I had to have the op this time.. Talk about psychological torture. Who in their right mind thinks 'oh this woman just had to have an operation to have her pregnancy removed - I know - let's put her next to the woman that just gave birth! It's all the same thing!') Although the official figures for miscarriage are 1 in 4, my consultant last year told ...